We cordially invite you to our symposium on
The Humanness of Work in an Era of Artificial Intelligence
Monday, Aug 7, 2023
10:00 am – 11:30am
Suffolk Marriott
Session 925:
https://www.xcdsystem.com/aom/program/A5p5d1k/index.cfm?pgid=891&sid=29979
Symposium Organizers:
Zoe Jonassen, New York University, USA
Kevin W. Lee, University of British Columbia, Canada
Symposium Presenters and Contributors:
Matthew Beane, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Danielle Bovenberg, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Elmira van den Broek, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Rebecca Hinds, Stanford University, USA
Zoe Jonassen, New York University, USA
Katherine Kellogg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Kevin W. Lee, University of British Columbia, Canada
Natalia Levina, New York University, USA
Dan Sholler, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Melissa Valentine, Stanford University, USA
Batia Wiesenfeld, New York University, USA
Discussant
Stephen Barley, Stanford University, USA
With the increasing development and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, algorithmic technologies like AI carry out forms of work we once considered to be beyond the capacity of machines. This ranges from the cognitive work associated with professions like medicine and management to the emotional-expressive work associated with fine art and music composition. In this symposium, we discuss how work might come to be reorganized amid these technological developments. One central area of concern has revolved around what the rationalization of work through AI technologies might portend for work's humanness: a conceptually vague, if evocative and deeply meaningful, dimension of our sense of distinctiveness as a species. Scholars have worried that forms of technological rationalization might threaten our work's human touch, such as our human ability to navigate subjective situations with a sense of moral duty to and care for those that our work may affect. Against this backdrop, our symposium touches upon questions such as: "What constitutes the humanness of our work? Relatedly, what about what we do and are capable of makes us distinctly human, as compared with AI? How, if at all, have our conceptions of our inherent humanness been evolving?" To this end, we gathered five qualitative studies that observed what has actually been happening across today's workplaces, thereby grounding our understanding of what has been occurring at this fraught interface between technologies and human beings.
Sponsor(s): MOC, CTO, OMT
We look forward to a lively discussion and to hopefully seeing many of you there!
Kevin & Zoe
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Dr. Zoe Jonassen
Postdoctoral Fellow
NYU Stern School of Business
zmj224@nyu.edu
zoejonassen.com